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There was a time when most people had dial-up Internet access but owned or had access to recordable CD drives and USB flash drives. Many of us had high-capacity
by cestith 8y ago
There was a time when most people had dial-up Internet access but owned or had access to recordable CD drives and USB flash drives. Many of us had high-capacity (for the day) removable media like the ZIP-100, Zip-250, SyQuest drives, or IOMega Super120. Even with 6 or 10 Mbps DSL it was sometimes faster to take a box full of disks or pull a couple drives from a system and drive them to a friend's or colleague's place to exchange a large amount of data. Sending CDs or Zip disks via UPS or FedEx was a thing for a long time in the design and custom printing industries. Before all of that, there were floppy disks.
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